About the show

Every week, Jim invites different friends to guest on Topic Lords and be excited about whatever they've been fixated on this week.

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Episodes

  • 260. This Sentient Life Could've Been An Email

    October 14th, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins
    chris, jenni

    Lords: Jenni and Chris. We discuss whether corporate mascots are age-locked to a generation, balls being able to taste soy sauce, BB-8 changed my tire, and The Woodchuck by Sam Pink.

  • 259. All Bag, No Pipes

    October 7th, 2024  |  1 hr 8 mins
    elena, tyriq

    Lords: Elena and Tyriq. We discuss being witty and social as a power fantasy, popular music: sometimes popular because it's good, where do we go after Cohost, and Ballad of the Veliger by Walter Garstang.

  • 258. Only The Head Of The Deer Sparks Joy

    September 30th, 2024  |  1 hr 4 mins
    cort, marks

    Lords: Cort and Mark. We discuss things you've found in the trash, traveling with children, Adventures with BB-8, Burma Shave Sign by Andrew Plotkin, the useless superpowers game, and whether Mega Man suffers ennui

  • 257. Stinky Judo

    September 23rd, 2024  |  1 hr 14 mins
    nathan, tom

    Lords: Nathan and Tom. We discuss France stealing breakdancing during the 2024 Olympics, growing to an age where media is good, how are you saying goodbye to trigraphs, Rain by Raymond Carver, how to pronounce things you normally just type, and rolling in NES tetris.

  • 256. Donkey Kong Is A Tankie

    September 16th, 2024  |  1 hr 16 mins
    mark, shirley

    Lords: Mark and Shirley. We discuss naming a human, getting more liberal as you get older, I'm scared to start recording Mario Odyssey, and The Orc

  • 255. We're Truly On The Bleeding Edge Of Something

    September 9th, 2024  |  59 mins 2 secs
    adam, linker

    Lords: Adam and Linker. We discuss ways you've changed in 20 years, examples of X animal software running on Y animal hardware, whether erasure poetry counts as poetry, and your favorite RPG (whatever that means)

  • 254. Help Me Get Over The Pervert Hump

    September 2nd, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins
    alicia, ryan

    Lords: Ryan and Alicia. We discuss asking people what they're into without sounding like a pervert, Arctic Expeditions and man's hubris, Asterix Park, and I Won't Call You Pretty, by L.E. Bowman

  • 253. A Unified Theory Of Hot Dog Preference

    August 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins

    Lords: Wacy and Chris. We discuss difficulties with long-term traveling, Norway, why they don't have novelty whipped cream, and The Dirt Man Song.

  • 252. A Properly Functioning Bag Nose

    August 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 4 mins
    johnb, kory

    Lords: JohnB, Kory. We discuss vinyl records, teaching yourself C++, forgetting things as a way of getting things done, I Sat Belonely by John Lennon, and the vestigial organs of video games.

  • 251. Organs Experiencing Red Shift

    August 12th, 2024  |  1 hr 11 mins
    casey, erica

    Lords: Erica and Casey. We discuss coeloms, solving problems by experiencing a bigger problem, mammals learning to eat cephalopods, A Narrow Fellow in the Grass by Emily Dickinson, and personal project retrospectives.

  • 250. Almost Pickles: It's Just Cucumbers!

    August 5th, 2024  |  57 mins 50 secs
    jenni, tyriq

    Lords: Jenni and Tyriq. We discuss mayochup and kranch, Barry Topping, Magic Shell, Hot Sauce by Just James, video games where you put toppings on things, and the temptation of bad ice cream toppings.

  • 249. Singles Night At Whole Foods

    July 29th, 2024  |  1 hr 2 mins
    ian, strucci

    Lords: Ian and Shannon. We discuss remakes of Yojimbo, how to balance character likability with dark comedy, fixing bad movie dialog mixing, and The Chinese Checker Players by Richard Brautigan.

  • 248. The Ephemeral Nature Of Digital Fish Food

    July 22nd, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins
    elena, nathalie

    Lords: Elena and Nathalie. We discuss fish-based screensavers, fire safety, the Aquarium and the Glass Harmonica, I Am Running Into A New Year by Lucille Clifton, and going to Japan.

  • 247. Fish That Scrutinize; Fish That Rubberneck

    July 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins
    alex, shannon

    Lords: Alex and Shannon. We discuss spending less on food and it tasting better, the jizz of a bird, the Cosmic Call, Line Fishing by Daniel Kahaulelio, how to order coffee in Malaysia, and physically rolling dice.

  • 246. Send An Envelope Of Guacamole For Analysis

    July 8th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins

    Lords: Jay and Alex. We discuss Mexican food outside of San Diego, releasing your first commercial video game, the being an uncle of camping, Skyscrapers by Matt Haig, and attempting to preserve 40 years' worth of personal data.

  • 245. It Was You, Old Man Molyneux!

    July 1st, 2024  |  1 hr 13 mins
    ben, nicholas

    Lords: Ben and Nicholas. We discuss sending treats from Australia to Canada, the terrible UX of live sports, Games Buddha Would Not Play, I Continue to Dream by Langston Hughes, and being overly patriotic and repping the national identity but only when around foreigners